Using Cradlepoint NetCloud Engine

Remote access from anywhere

Cradlepoint helps IT organizations maintain their sanity and budgets while addressing the growing need for remote access from anywhere. Whether keeping up with the demands of your remote and mobile workforce, connecting new remote offices, providing isolated access for contractors, or deploying a temporary network for a construction site or sales meeting, Cradlepoint NetCloud Engine makes it easy.

With Cradlepoint NetCloud Engine, you can build one or more virtual overlay networks to give groups of remote users segmented access to files and applications—whether in the data center or public cloud. Provide users with a seamless LAN experience while eliminating the hardware and headaches of a traditional VPN. Through the admin web console, you can provision users, devices and entire virtual networks in just a few clicks, and delete them just as fast.

From a security perspective, NetCloud Engine combines strong end-to-end encryption, auto-PKI and machine authentication with a fully cloaked private address space and micro-segmentation capabilities to offer the security of a private network over the public Internet.

Enterprise mobility, extend MDM

NetCloud Engine is designed to address the unique challenges associated with providing secure access to critical files and applications from mobile devices, including Windows, Android and Apple iOS phones and tablets.

Unlike traditional VPNs, you can deploy one or more virtual overlay networks to segregate mobile users and the specific servers they need access to—whether in the data center or public cloud—from everything else. This “quarantine” approach ensures that mobile devices are contained and mobile users cannot access unauthorized resources on data center or office LANs.

M2M and connected devices

Managed service and solution providers can use NetCloud Engine to securely connect, monitor and manage devices deployed on customer sites, in the field, or anywhere in the world. You can create virtual overlay networks to connect devices using any form of public or private Internet access and segment them by customer, site or function.

Extend your AD domain everywhere

Today, Active Directory (AD) is the foundation of enterprise security. It provides essential domain services such as authentication and single sign-on (SSO), password compliance, security and configuration policy (Group Policy), desktop software updates, and DNS. This all works great when everyone's in the office and on the AD domain, but what happens when remote users are off domain for extended periods of time?

Hybrid and multi-cloud networking

There are a lot of public cloud options today. Whether your workloads are mainstream applications, disaster recovery, development or cloud bursting, there's a public cloud suited to your needs and workflow. The challenge becomes how to securely network them all together without losing automation and flexibility.

NetCloud Engine lets IT, development and devops teams build virtual private cloud (VPC) networks in minutes that connect cloud instances, containers and remote users across any private or public cloud. Our NetCloud Engine is software-defined and cloud-based, so there's no hardware or configuration and automation is a snap using machine authentication.

Each VPC is a secure, virtual overlay network with its own private address space, eliminating the need for public IP addresses or open inbound firewall ports.

SD-WAN for cloud BC/DR

Many IT organizations have embraced public cloud storage or private Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions as a cost effective way to ensure business continuity (BC) in the event of a disaster. While these services simplify the process of continual data backup and server replication, one challenge remains—static and inelastic network connectivity.

NetCloud Engine SD-WAN allows IT organization to deploy a virtual overlay network for BC/DR to connect remote and displaced workforce to backup servers and data from anywhere and any device. Since Cradlepoint networks are cloud-based and software-defined, you can seamlessly scale from a few to hundreds of connections—eliminating racks of idle hardware. With NetCloud Engine SmartZones, you can even deploy DR-based WAN parallel to your traditional WAN and control how traffic is routed between them.